euphoric - Story 46909 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

As the final words of the email settled in, a feeling of tremendous lightness washed over Emily. She was sitting in a particularly drab philosophy class, but now the world seemed to have gained a sudden sparkle. She felt as though the volume on life had been turned up.

She wanted to jump up and down, but she forced herself to remain seated, her hands clasched together so tight. She was unable to stop her lips from curling into an enormous smile. She felt like she could take on the world.

She felt an irresistible urge to text everyone she knew. To share the news, to share the *feeling*. The stuffy rules of college, the stifling curriculum, all gone. She was free to create her own path.

Emotion: euphoric

Cluster: Positive / Joy

PC1 (Valence): 2.69 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): -0.67

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion euphoric. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 euphoric stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the euphoric emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the euphoric vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`!`	0.501
`joyful`	0.464
`overjoyed`	0.455
`de`	0.450
`ecstatic`	0.448

Suppressed:

`S`	-0.663
`😞`	-0.494
`que`	-0.420
`😔`	-0.368
`😓`	-0.366